The practical book of period furniture, treating of furniture of the English, American colonial and post-colonial and principal French periods . twithstanding the conserva-tive fondness for William and Mary forms, rapidlymade their way into favour and very early in the eigh-teenth century appeared the cabriole leg, hoof foot,ogeed apron (Key XIX, 5) and oftentimes burr walnutveneering on drawer fronts, the stiles and rails of thecarcase being of plain wood. The material used for nearly all of the Williamand Mary and Queen Anne pieces of native make—andmost of them were the work of local joiner
The practical book of period furniture, treating of furniture of the English, American colonial and post-colonial and principal French periods . twithstanding the conserva-tive fondness for William and Mary forms, rapidlymade their way into favour and very early in the eigh-teenth century appeared the cabriole leg, hoof foot,ogeed apron (Key XIX, 5) and oftentimes burr walnutveneering on drawer fronts, the stiles and rails of thecarcase being of plain wood. The material used for nearly all of the Williamand Mary and Queen Anne pieces of native make—andmost of them were the work of local joiners—was asingularly beautiful black walnut of deep rich colourthat lent a rare distinction to any article for whichit was employed. This particular variety of black wal-nut was found growing along the banks of the Schuyl-kill, and material of its peculiar richness seems neverto have been found anywhere else. The supply was longago exhausted, so that wood of this sort in any pieceof furniture is almost sufficient to stamp its date andplace of manufacture. Much of the late Queen Anne orearly Georgian and a great deal of Chippendale furni-. MAHOGANY SECRETARY OR BUREAU BOOKCASE. AMERICAN, LATE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY By Courtesy of Richard A. Canfield, Esq., New York City PLATE XLIV OTHER AMERICAN FURNITURE 309 ture was made of this same walnut by Philadelphiacabinet-makers. At the same time, while the walnut was enjoyingsuch general favour, mahogany was steadily winningits way into popular esteem. Its employment incabinet-work seems to have been earlier and was, per-haps, more general than in England. Certain it is that
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